Improvement in knife-handles



UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHELDON B. EVERIIT, OF PLYMOUTH HOLLOW, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THETHOMAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNIFE-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 36,255, dated Au gust19, 1862. I

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SHELDON B. EVERITT,

of Plymouth Hollow, in the county of Litchfield and'State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket-KnifeHandles; and I do hereby declare that the fol- .lowing is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side view of a pocket-knife having its handle constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2is alongitudin al section of the same.Fig. 3 is an inside view of one half or side of the handle. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal.

section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

This. invention consists in the manufacture of the handles of pen andpocket knives of two shells-one for each side of a handle-stamped 0rpunched out of plates or sheets of silver, German silver, brass, orother sheet metal or alloy, with convex exteriors of-any form anddesign, and having the ends of their concave interiors fillediwith somemetal of more fusible character, or, what is equivalent, with pieces ofmetal of similar character to that used for the shells, to make thoseportions of them solid two shells together toform the handle.

I b b and form flat solid bearings for their sides.

A good alloy for this filling may be composed of six pounds tin, onepound lead, ten ounces antimony, two ounces bismuth, andtwo ouncescopper, as, while it possesses the requisite fusibility to preventinjury to the shells. it has the requisite durability to bear thefriction of the blades in opening and shutting without material wear. Toapply the filling the interior of the shell is first tinned in theproper place for its reception and the alloy in a melted state isdropped into it and then pressed on its surface to make it fiat andflush with the edges of the shell. After the filling has set, the shellsare drilled for the reception of the pivots c c of the blades and of thepin d, which secures the spring 6, which, when riveted, secures the Theblades and spring are applied in thesameway as to any other handle.

The handle constructed of the two shells, as above described, can bemade at small cost, is

very strong, and may be made highly ornamental.

W'heu hard metal is substituted for the softmetal filling a a, it shouldbe stamped out to the required shape and soldered into the shells.

''What I claim asmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The construction of the handle of a pocket- .knife of two shells, A A,stamped or punched out of sheet metal or alloy and having the ends oftheir concave interiors filled with fusible metal or alloy, as shown ata a and herein described, or with an equivalent filling of hard metahSHELDON B. EVERITT.

VVit-nesses:

' THOMAS D. BRADS'IREET,

S TH THOMAS.

